All memes aside, why do people like Kennedy?

All memes aside, why do people like Kennedy?

because he died

Because getting shot in the face by commies during the Cold War does wonders for your public image. If he'd survived he'd be just as hated as Johnson.

meme fail

Caribbean missile crisis?

He died.

He was honestly one of the worst presidents in history but because he died no one remembers that.

Cuban missile crisis and the Soviets had smuggled the missiles out of Cuba before the blockade even went up because Castro is fucking insane. Kennedy got credit for defusing a situation that didn't actually exist.

So there we go. Even if he didn't deserve it, he DID got credit and that answers OP's question.

Nixon was one of the best cold-war era prasidents, yet everyone hates him because of the watergate.

wew no

just because normies love him doesn't mean you have to go to the other extreme.

Mainly because he was assassinated during height of the Cold War, and was fairly young, along with many people being alive to ""experience"" it, so he's looked back with a sense of nostalgia + disbelief.

He was a mediocre president.

It wasn't just because he died, because not many people give a fuck or even know about William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James Garfield, McKinley, or Harding.

This, didn't he escalate the Vietnam War?

Funny how Johnson gets a pass for bringing more troops in because he made the Welfare State but Nixon gets demonized despite being the one who ended it and brought forth relations with China.

'cause they saw his brains explode in a pink mist.

Fucking liberals have taken over the higher institutions of learning and changed fucking facts.

It was because JFK was so weak that the Soviets put nukes in Cuba. We were dealing with the fucking USSR, not fucking Castro.

He escalated the war, but he had in the past spoken about leaving vietnam alone.
If I remember correctly, he visited Vietnam during the French war, while he was senator, which affected him somewhat.

>MAD magazine's ugly boy was a USA president
Now that's dark humor.

>Fucking liberals have taken over the higher institutions of learning and changed fucking facts
Except them's the facts user. We know about this because of the flood information we got after the fall of the wall. Not even Castro knew they were smuggled out until after the blockade ended and even then he only found out because a reporter called and asked him how he felt about it.

>It was because JFK was so weak that the Soviets put nukes in Cuba. We were dealing with the fucking USSR, not fucking Castro
You don't quite understand how the Soviet Union worked, do you? The missile bases in Cuba were under Cuban administration with the Soviets there as advisors. This was in stark contrast to NATO where the US controlled any missile bases in NATO territory outside of fucking Britain. The Soviets smuggled out the missiles because Castro was threatening to launch them over continued slights by the United States which was a direct threat to the Soviet Union.

If anything, giving JFK credit for solving the missile crisis, whether he allowed it to happen or not, would be the liberal talking point, not explaining the reality that he solved a situation that didn't exist.

He came from Boston, he moved to NY. In that day and age the raw feelings over baseball lineages still ran high. However going forward I'd say.

One part vestigial need for Royal Family in post English colonial America.

One part moon landing.

One part sex magnet, rich dude, playboy, that doesn't brag about it.

One part first and only catholic president.

One part Cuban missile crisis cleanup after CIA faggotry.

One part 'muh civil rights' president (which is debatable), alive during MLK.

One part Richard Nixon was his competition and we still feel guilty for electing that fraud, so we boost JFK to try to wash out the stink.

I don't care much about his presidency but moon landing speech is a really big motivation for me. It's the engineering equivalent of don't give up videos for fitness.

He broke barriers as a young, catholic democrat who became president. He was a war hero, charismatic, and eloquent (partly thanks to his speechwriters). He spoke passionately about the bond between people and their government that resonated during that time. After his death, all of these feelings of hope, optimism, and civil service were amplified tenfold. Even though he did not accomplish as much as he wanted, his and most Americans love for their country and government outweighed his record. He isn't remembered for his record but for his personality and moral leadership.

He is to the Democrats as Reagan is to the conservatives, nothing more than nostalgia and bullshit.

>ywn live in a world where Nixon went to Moscow instead, and it was China that imploded while the US"""S"""R became a mass-manufacturing economy that makes iPhones for the west.
;-;

He came from a time when people weren't disillusioned with the government yet. His speech of "ask not what your government can do for you, ask what you can do for your government" is something that would never fly in today's political climate.

He was young, he was optimisitic, he was a catholic who promised we would NOT get a papist in the white house (something that probably would've happened if Bobby got elected). And most importantly, he was killed after serving only 3 years.

he's good looking

Assassination, mostly. Also >muh spehss

A reporter from where? How did he know? How did he get Castro on the phone?

>Broke barriers

Why do people make up non-existant barriers? It's like the whole glass ceiling bullshit.
Just because no woman has had the position before does not mean that you are discriminated against now.

0 to misogynist in just 1 sentence, amazing

Because he tried to reclaim control of the American currency from the Fed by issuing currency in a way that didn't generate debt.

>implying he wasn't the only politician to promise such a thing and that people actually care about that